Recovering Lost Web Pages

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victor | 22 October, 2008 11:42

Nice title eh? Here is the case.

You paid for someone to develop a website for you.
Your website was done (no programming involved) and hosted online.
For one reason or another, you don't have access to your website anymore. Many cases might lead to this such as problems with the party that developed your website, crash on a server with no backup as well as all sort of other non-professional reasons that might be faced.

You want to recover these lost pages?

The solution is fairly easy.

Goto http://google.com/
Type site: followed by your domain name (e.g. site:victorsawma.com) and hit the button
Google will get you a list of all pages that Google's spider have crawled from your website and saved locally on their servers (Yes. Google has almost all websites saved locally on their servers. This was actually the way Google started as per the creators of Google)
At the bottom of each entry, you will see a link labeled (cached)
Click on that link and you will be able to see the cached page from Google's servers.
Save the page and move to the next page

This can be very helpful in many other cases such as updating website content and then deciding to revert back to old text.

Try it for yourself. The link below will show you all pages from my site that are cached by Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avictorsawma.com

Images, on the other hand, are not cached. As such, you will have to try to get them from somewhere else but at least we have saved the content which matters most. Right?

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Re: Cache Updates

Victor | 30/10/2008, 08:02

Google keeps cache of all pages (even if updated Paul). Whenever you check a cached page, you will be able to see the date it was cached. If a newer page exists, you will find two pages cached each with a different date.

Question

PauL Mecherkany | 29/10/2008, 11:41

How you can make google cash ur newly updated page which was alreay cached before updating it? Is it possible?

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